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Artist: Bill Haley And The Comets Venue: The Bitter End City:   New York City, New York, USA Date: Tuesday, 16 Dec 1969 Collection:   Attended     Wishlist  Community:

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Notes

Three sets were performed, two of which were recorded. Excepts from both sets were released in 1970 by Kama Sutra Records on the album Bill Haley's Scrapbook. Additional recordings from the shows were located and included on an extended CD edition of the album released in the early 1990s. In 1999 the Bear Family Records box set "The Warner Brothers Years and More" released most of the recording from both sets save for a performance of There Goes My Everything that needed to be performed again due to a microphone issue.

The following songs were initially released in 1970 on "Bill Haley's Scrapbook": Rock the Joint, Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie, Skinny Minnie, Razzle-Dazzle, Rudy's Rock, See You Later Alligator, Saints Rock and Roll, Framed (Nick Nastos vocal), Shake Rattle and Roll, Rip it Up, Crazy Man Crazy, Rock Around the Clock.

The following songs were also performed and recorded, but not released until the 1990s (not every set included all these songs): Dance Around the Clock, Night Train, Guitar Boogie, You Are My Sunshine (Ray Cawley vocal), Johnny B. Goode (Nick Nastos vocal), Kansas City (Rudy Pompilli vocal), Fingers on Fire, Wipe Out, There Goes My Everything (Bill Nolte vocal), Alabama Bound (Pompilli vocal), Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On (Nastos vocal), Honky Tonk, Hey Momma (Cawley vocal), Almost Persuaded (Nolte vocal), Yakety Sax, Next Time (Nastos vocal).

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23skidoo 15th Dec 2017		A performance of Malaguena by guitarist Nick Nastos is also believed to have been performed during this gig, but no recording of it has surfaced to date. (Edit: the source for this is on the extended version released by Bear Family, between two songs, Haley can be heard acknowledging Nastos as having just played "Malaguena". It may have been a victim of the same sound problem that required There Goes My Everything to be performed twice. Both of Haley's introductions to that song survive, by the way: one is only available on the extended CD issue of the Scrapbook album; Bear Family did not include this on their release, but rather Haley speaking about the song needing to be redone.)

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